Environment

Linda Gass’s beautiful textile art draws viewers in, then forces them to confront difficult truths about our relationship with the natural world.

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The farms of Sikkim are now 100 percent pesticide free.

These plant diseases and crop-killing critters cause many millions of dollars in damage, and mean very hard work for those that're trying to stop them.

This drone is designed to crash with minimal environmental impact.

Chinese artist Nut Brother spent 100 days pushing a vacuum cleaner around Beijing—then made a brick from the dust and smog he collected.

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The birds eat our garbage, then return to shore to do their business.

Pliable, strong overpasses are fashioned from trees—but they've never been documented in full.

For now, it appears that we’ve finally dumped something into the oceans that doesn’t seem to be hurting them.

YouTuber Bionerd23's videos from the Exclusion Zone aim to show viewers how safe the nuclear disaster site can be these days.

Hawaii’s Big Island is overrun with a very tiny—and very loud—frog.

Lurking in their storage lockers: board room fistfights, an eccentric founder, and a murder mystery.

How exactly did this ethereal-looking tropical fish go from tank to trouble?

The fuzzy green balls are revered as national treasures, celebrated in religious ceremonies, and kept as pets.

One man’s trash is another man’s fun fact.

One major threat? Collectors and horticulturists harvest the wild plants and sell them illegally.

Babies in Canada have to learn to walk the old-fashioned way.

They're preserving iconic trees for future generations.

Two new studies have huge environmental implications.

The bivalve mollusks will filter the water, repopulate the over-fished estuary, and hopefully help save the Bay.

Your beer can be artisanal, local, organic, or gluten-free. Now, it can also help conserve the Pacific Northwest's wild fish.

The colorful seed balls bloom into honeybees' favorite wildflowers.

Drones, armed guards, and international relocation are helping to protect rhinos from poachers.

Vietnam’s FPT University is covered in trees. A lot of trees.

The artifacts range from a few hundred to several thousand years old

Gorgeous Stitched Paintings Depict Environmental Destruction

India Has Its First Fully Organic State

11 Diseases and Pests That are Catastrophic to Plants

This Earth-Friendly Drone Is Made From Biodegradable Fungus

Artist Creates Brick out of Beijing's Smog

Seabird Poop Carries Ocean Pollution Ashore

A Quest to Document Northeast India's Amazing Root Bridges

What Ever Happened to All Those Subway Cars We Dumped into the Atlantic?

Why Does This YouTube Star Eat the Apples in Chernobyl?

Hawaii's Big Island Is Overrun With Loud Frogs From Puerto Rico

14 Things You Might Not Know About U-Haul

Lionfish Continue Their Invasion of the East Coast's Warm Waters

Meet Marimo, the World’s Most Charismatic Algae

11 Fragrant Facts About Trash

Nearly One-Third of Cacti Are at Risk of Becoming Extinct

10 Things Banned in Other Countries, but Legal in the U.S.

Scientists Are Trying to Save Historic Trees By Cloning Them

Mealworms Make Styrofoam Biodegradable By Digesting It

Maryland Built the World's Largest Man-Made Oyster Reef

In Portland, You Can Now Drink Salmon-Safe Beer

Throw Wildflower Seed Bombs to Bring Back the Bees

6 Audacious Efforts to Save Endangered Rhinos

A Vietnamese University Is Turning Its Campus Into a Forest

Melting Ice in Yellowstone National Park Reveals Ancient Artifacts